Feature Interview: The return of Inuit Art Quarterly (Audio)

Inuit Art Quarterly, long regarded as one of the most important sources of information on the art and artists of Canada’s North, is back.

The magazine was launched in 1986. But it stopped publishing in 2012 after the Inuit Art Foundation, responsible for the publication, shut down.

But now, Inuit Art Quarterly is back with a new issue focusing on reknowed Inuit aritst Kenojuak Ashevak who died in 2013.

Upcoming issues will focus on themes as diverse as circumpolar arts or the work and artists of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit self-governing region in the Atlantic Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is a journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project.

Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the violent death of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on violence and trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."